AfDB Launches Virtual Newsletter

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African Development Bank Group (AfDB) in a bid to keep its teeming publics up to date with its events and projects have just launched its virtual newsletter.

The newsletter laden with details of programs and other news items within its operational sphere would be released periodically to its subscribers.

The newsletter is being monitored under the auspices of the AfDB’s Department of Agriculture and Agro-industry.

The maiden edition of the newsletter underscored the bank’s commitment to the preparation of a continent-wide strategy for the transformation of African agriculture titled: Feed Africa: A Strategy for Agricultural Transformation in Africa. 

According to the Director, Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department (OSAN), Chiji Ojukwu, the department is proud to take centre stage in the design and implementation of the Strategy for African Agricultural Transformation (ATA).

“As this constitutes one of the most important strategic priorities of the Bank, we at OSAN are enthusiastic and ambitious in helping to deliver the mission aimed at achieving this goal.”

Speaking further, he noted that the newsletter specifically focuses on the portfolio of operations and special initiatives, which the Bank has undertaken with a view to  tracking their performance. The first edition of the newsletter focuses on innovation across the agriculture value-chain.